e0y2e3 wrote:No, the correct answer is pointing out the things they blew, like trading two cy young winners and almost a decades worth of drafts instead of screaming up and down like an idiot about the one thing they have done decently in the very recent past.

Like I said. Those things have been discussed to the point they are no longer worth discussing.

Now we can discuss their newest disasters. Which include a series of drafts that have produced minimal successes at the big league level and have nothing within 2 years ML that there is any reason to be excited about. Maybe they shouldn't be successful at the ML level yet (especially since nobody has any 25 year olds on their big league rosters), but there should be something higher than Lake Freaking County with a ceiling of MLB All Star from the draft.

What are you even trying to say here? That the Pirates are a model franchise that we should try to emulate?

They draft well, their free agents contribute, they have made some great trades, they were aggressive at the trade deadline again this year, they have a good manager and arguably the best pitching coach in the league, and they aren't afraid to write checks, so yes, their model from the late 2000s to the present has been working. But this is biased as I am fan.